Location: Lexington,KY, USA
**Overview**
As a Patient Care Assistant at Saint Joseph Hospital you'll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities.
Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. You're diligent about your tasks, observant of patients' conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well.
**Key Responsibilities Include:**
+ Check-in with the outgoing patient care assistant at the beginning of your shift to get a report on your patients.
+ Conduct hourly rounds checking vitals, maintaining whiteboard information, and assisting with care as needed.
+ Assist patients with ambulating as necessary. This may mean helping them reach a recliner in their room, walk to the bathroom, or down the hall. Assist released patients in getting safely to their vehicles outside.
+ Assist patients with hygiene needs. This can include a full bed bath, an assisted bed bath, or retrieving towels and soap for ambulatory patients.
+ Assist the bedside nurse as needed such as: holding the patient or providing the nurse with supplies, and cleaning up after.
+ Help the bedside nurse with any wound checks or dressing changes.
+ Change bed linens, check patients' weight, other tasks as assigned each day.
**Incentives:**
We're offering a $3,000 sign on bonus for new hires that meet eligilbiity requirements.
**About Us:**
Saint Joseph Hospital is a 433-bed facility located in Lexington Kentucky. Founded in 1877 a small group of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford began their health ministry. Their mission was to provide compassionate care to the poor and underserved - a tradition still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital primarily serves central and eastern Kentucky with a full range of services including distinguished awards for cardiology orthopedics and stroke care. CHI Saint Joseph Health supports 5000 active employees 8 hospitals specialty clinics and a Medical Group with more than 200 locations across Central and Eastern KY. CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health in 2019. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.
**Responsibilities**
Performs a variety of routine tasks to support the delivery of safe, effective, cost-efficient patient care as delegated by the RN. They provide assistance in transporting, transferring and lifting. They perform cleaning Functions in patient care unit as delegated, and perform selected diagnostic tests.
**ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**
1. Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff
2. Monitors and records vital signs
3. Assists in providing personal hygiene and physical care needs
4. Accurately measures, records, and reports intake and output
5. Obtains and records daily weight
6. Performs blood glucose testing using blood glucose meter
7. Reports changes in patient's status promptly to RN
8. Performs as patient care companion when needed
9. Assists in the admission, transfer and discharge process
10. Performs unit housekeeping needs
11. Acts as a runner/transporter
12. Checks and documents refrigerator temperatures as delegated, reporting variances to appropriate personnel
13. Updates assigned bed status
14. Maintains a safe environment by responding to all bed alarms, call lights, telephones and alerting the correct person.
15. Keeps patient environment clean, performs comfort rounds, keeps hallways clear of obstruction, no food or drink at the workstation, reports safety issues and broken equipment appropriately, and adheres to patient safety precautions
16. Communicates with patient's family, physicians, and unit personnel and peers in an accurate, courteous, and professional manner
17. Other duties as assigned by manager
_The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed_ _within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities_ _required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned._
**Qualifications**
**Required Education** :
+ High School Diploma, GED or SRNA
**Required Licensure and Certifications** :
+ BLS via the American Heart Association
**Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities** **and Training** :
+ Healthcare experience preferred
**Pay Range**
$15.92 - $22.79 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.